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Skirts and Slacks

By: W.S. Di Piero

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W. S. Di Piero, a fresh and powerful voice in American poetry, opens this collection about public and private worlds with poems that revist the deaths of his parents. It is an important adult passage for him, and for them a last chance to leave a message: his father lying in bed, "bemused and contemptuous / of the hell in which he lay"; his mother soon to be laid out in the cheap gold flats "that made her look young and men look twice." Di Piero writes poems of relationships, of ordinary beauty, of the deep, vsieral memories that shape who we become. He reveals the art in the everyday--sometimes literally, as when he spies a Vermeer beauty in a girl with nose studs at the ATM, or Van Gogh's self-portrait in a small-time bookie. Whether describing the uncertainty of sexual love ("...your footpads / wet after a bath / left prints like / our conversations / every which way") or a panhandler in Port Authority ("Show you to your bus / or an excellent candy bar?"), he is delicate and direct at once, a no-nonsense guide to his surroundings who is moved by what he sees. His strong, elegantly simple statements of truths of feeling go beyond the pleasure of the words themselves and restore us to the thrill of honesty in our own lives.

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300199465

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Piero Di Cosimo

Visions Beautiful and Strange

By: Dennis Geronimus

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Piero Di Cosimo

Visions Beautiful and Strange

By: Dennis Geronimus

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known today—as he was in his own time—for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist’s life and works—only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated—and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Piero’s life and career ever written. Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artist’s biography and provides intensive analysis of Piero’s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.

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Yale University Press

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0300109113

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Piero Della Francesca

A Mathematician's Art

By: Judith Veronica Field,Piero

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Piero Della Francesca

A Mathematician's Art

By: Judith Veronica Field,Piero

Studie over de wiskundige kennis van de renaissanceschilder (ca. 1416-1492) en over het belang van de exacte wetenschap in de betreffende kunstperiode.

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0300103425

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

Includes a biography of the Italian painter, compares his work with that of other artists of his time, discusses his mathematic and geometric theories, and provides a complete catalog of his work

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461 1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero's approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author's explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions many still influential today that resulted from Vasari's account, she reveals that even Piero's most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time.

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Reaktion Books

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0948462361

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Out of Eden

Essays on Modern Art

By: W. S. Di Piero

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Out of Eden

Essays on Modern Art

By: W. S. Di Piero

The writing is superb, the insights come with astonishing and rich rapidity, and the moral and intellectual intelligence behind them strikes me as unflinchingly honest and scrupulous."--Reginald Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly

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Univ of California Press

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0520070658

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The Power of Kindness

The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Piero Ferrucci

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The Power of Kindness

The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Piero Ferrucci

The popular guide to living with kindness now includes a new chapter, introduction, and exercises in this tenth-anniversary edition. When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged readers with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue but the very key to your own happiness. With nearly 125,000 copies sold, TarcherPerigee is celebrating the book's tenth anniversary with this new edition, featuring a complete new chapter by Piero Ferrucci on the theme of "Harmlessness," which joins his other chapters on virtues such as "Honesty," "Warmth," and "Loyalty." In addition, Ferrucci contributes a substantial new introduction and selection of techniques, meditations, and exercises. This tenth-anniversary volume is perfect for new readers and for lovers of the original who want to re-experience its wisdom and power.

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Penguin

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0143129279

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The Restorers

By: W. S. Di Piero

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The Restorers

By: W. S. Di Piero

The poems in this, W. S. Di Piero's fifth collection of poetry, are animated by an ancient vision of the human state as existing somewhere between the divine and the bestial; tense with the compulsion toward formal order and the wild yearning after chaos, these are tough poems, gritty and relentless; they indulge neither the reader nor the poet. Their austere lyricism expresses Di Piero's desire for transcendent meaning, and their unflinching attention to natural and cultural history reflects an equally strong instinct for the earthbound.

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Beauty and the Soul

The Extraordinary Power of Everyday Beauty to Heal Your Life

By: Piero Ferrucci

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Beauty and the Soul

The Extraordinary Power of Everyday Beauty to Heal Your Life

By: Piero Ferrucci

The bestselling author of The Power of Kindness shows how the ability to appreciate beauty-far from being a luxury or an afterthought-is vital to leading a happy, balanced, and satisfying life. Beauty is all around us-in a flower, a song, the sound of falling water, or a dramatic painting. We often think of it as just "window dressing." But it's not. It is the balm of our existence, and we cannot live full and satisfying lives without it. Transpersonal psychologist Piero Ferrucci helps us to see everyday beauty in a whole new way-and to understand its powers to guide us through periods of darkness or stress, to speed recovery, to make life feel purposeful. He uses stories, case studies, clinical histories, and anecdotes to explain how different kinds of beauty complement and complete our lives in different ways. So much of the malaise and low-grade depression we may find in our lives and those of people we love is due to our inability to understand the extraordinary power-and necessity-of taking time to "smell the flowers." Ferrucci shows how we can place ourselves in closer proximity to the therapeutic healing that only beauty can bring.

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1101135549

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On Soviet Dissent

By: Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev,Piero Ostellino

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On Soviet Dissent

By: Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev,Piero Ostellino

Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war. Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women. This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.

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0231048130

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Euology of Judges

By: Piero Calamandrei

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Euology of Judges

By: Piero Calamandrei

Reprint of the first American edition. First published in Italian in 1936, Elogio dei Giudici Scritto da un Avvocato, this is a collection of maxims, anecdotes and observations on the nature of law and justice by a professor of legal procedure at the University of Florence. Some chapters are: On the Faith of Judges, The Prime Requisite of Lawyers; On Etiquette (Or Discretion) in The Court; On the Relationship Between the Lawyer and the Truth, or on the Necessary Partisanship of the Lawyer. With a new preface by Jacob A. Stein, prominent Washington D.C. trial lawyer and author of Eulogy of Lawyers (2010), Legal Spectator & More (2003) and other titles.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584777605

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The Power of Kindness

The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

By: Piero Ferrucci

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The Power of Kindness

The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

By: Piero Ferrucci

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1585425885

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Shattered Hope

The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

By: Piero Gleijeses

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Shattered Hope

The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

By: Piero Gleijeses

The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

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Princeton University Press

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1400843499

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The Castaway

By: Piero Rivolta

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The Castaway

By: Piero Rivolta

A man adrift on a broken catamaran in the Gulf of Mexico is rescued and brought to a care facility in the Yucatan run by an unconventional Jesuit. The man seems to remember nothing of his past except his name. To speed his recovery, the priest engages him in searching conversations and introduces him to a captivating woman who runs a school for children in town. As their three lives intertwine and their secrets come to light, they become entangled in a complex web of emotions. Told in poetic prose, The Castaway, which continues the story begun in Sunset in Sarasota, is a fable-like meditation on the nature of memory, beauty, love and friendship, and offers a profound affirmation of the healing power of words.

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New Chapter Pub

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0984174524

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9780984174522

The Gospel according to Shakespeare

By: Piero Boitani

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The Gospel according to Shakespeare

By: Piero Boitani

In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare’s “rescripturing” of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and King Lear, he suggests, Shakespeare’s "New Testament" is merely hinted at, and faith, salvation, and peace are only glimpsed from far away. But in Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, the themes of compassion and forgiveness, transcendence, immanence, the role of the deity, resurrection, and epiphany are openly, if often obliquely, staged. The Christian Gospels and the Christian Bible are the signposts of this itinerary. Originally published in 2009, Boitani's Il Vangelo Secondo Shakespeare was awarded the 2010 De Sanctis Prize, a prestigious Italian literary award. Now available for the first time in an English translation, The Gospel according to Shakespeare brings to a broad scholarly and nonscholarly audience Boitani's insights into the current themes dominating the study of Shakespeare's literary theology. It will be of special interest to general readers interested in Shakespeare’s originality and religious perspective.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268075689

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9780268075682

The Extraordinary Story of Human Origins

By: Piero Angela

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The Extraordinary Story of Human Origins

By: Piero Angela

How can we know about the lives of our ancestors who lived 30,000, or 300,000, or 3 million years ago? In The Extraordinary Story of Human Origins, Piero and Alberto Angela address the many difficulties and challenges that scientists face in assembling the record of human evolution. To piece together the intriguing puzzle of human origins it is necessary to study all clues that are made available by multidisciplinary research, including paleontology, biochemistry, geology, genetics, physics, and climatology. Like so many Sherlock Holmeses, researchers seek all possible clues and analyze them meticuously in hopes of being able to reconstruct the past. These pieces are few and fragmentary, ranging from the footprints left in volcanic ash 3.7 million years ago by hominids who walked exactly as we do, to a "Y" pattern on molars and mitchondrial DNA. But they all provide information on the diet, diseases, hunting techniques, and art of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, the Neanderthal, and the first Homo sapiens sapiens. Written in an accessible but authoritative style, this study includes many lively reconstructions of the everyday life of our earliest ancestors based on the most reliable data. The Extraordinary Story of Human Origins makes available to a wide audience a unique look inside the exciting world of research into the the beginnings of human life on earth.

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Prometheus Books

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1615928375

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The Disappearance of Signora Giulia

By: Piero Chiara

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The Disappearance of Signora Giulia

By: Piero Chiara

When the sad, beautiful Signora Giulia goes missing without a trace from her Lake Como villa home, it is her husband who reports her disappearance to the detective Sciancalepre, and so the search begins - one that takes Sciancalepre beneath the tranquil surface of local bourgeois society, a world of snobbery and secrets, while mysterious shadows lurk in the grounds of the family villa . . . As his investigation gathers pace this atmospheric classic detective story becomes a thrilling game of legal cat and mouse.

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Pushkin Vertigo

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1782271414

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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 2 (novel)

By: Piero Karasu

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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 2 (novel)

By: Piero Karasu

A RIFT IN THE ROYAL FAMILY! With the help of her assistant—the genius young lady Euphyllia—Princess Anisphia has successfully subdued the dragon that attacked the Kingdom of Palettia. Nonetheless, the furor over Euphyllia’s canceled betrothal continues. To make matters worse, Anisphia discovers a devastating secret about Lainie, who holds the key to the prince’s strange decision. And that’s not the only secret—it’s just the beginning of a grand plot enveloping the entire royal palace!

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Yen Press LLC

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1975337832

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Visions of Freedom

Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

By: Piero Gleijeses

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Visions of Freedom

Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

By: Piero Gleijeses

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important theater of the late Cold War. These sources all point to one conclusion: by humiliating the United States and defying the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro changed the course of history in southern Africa. It was Cuba's victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa. In the words of Nelson Mandela, the Cubans "destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor . . . [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa.

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UNC Press Books

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146960969X

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Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice

Playing on the Threshold

By: Mike Piero

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Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice

Playing on the Threshold

By: Mike Piero

Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means “timespace,” is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games. Using ‘slow readings’ attuned to deconstruction along the lines of post-structuralist theory, gender studies, queer studies, continental philosophy, and critical theory, Mike Piero exposes the often-overlooked misogyny, heteronormativity, racism, and patriarchal structures present in many Triple-A video games through their arrangement of timespace itself. Beyond understanding time and space as separate mechanics and dimensions, Piero reunites time and space through the analysis of six chronotopes—of the bonfire, the abject, the archipelago, the fart as pharmakon, madness, and coupled love—toward a poetic meaning making that is at the heart of play itself, all in affirmation of life, equity, and justice.

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Springer Nature

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3030919447

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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 1 (novel)

By: Piero Karasu

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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 1 (novel)

By: Piero Karasu

Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy’s expectations by developing “magicology,” a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch. That’s when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom...and the entire world!

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Yen Press LLC

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1975337816

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My Prisons : Memoirs of Silvio Pellico

By: Silvio Pellico,Andrews Norton,Piero Maroncelli

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My Prisons : Memoirs of Silvio Pellico

By: Silvio Pellico,Andrews Norton,Piero Maroncelli

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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3368762885

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A Biography

By: Piero Melograni

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A Biography

By: Piero Melograni

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University of Chicago Press

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0226519562

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9780226519562

Bread of Dreams

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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Bread of Dreams

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies. Camporesi develops the startling claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to children and infants, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday imaginative life of peasants, beggars and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams. Bread of Dreams is a rich and engaging book which provides a fresh insight into the everyday life and attitudes of people in pre-industrial Europe. Camporesi's vision is breathtaking and his work will be much discussed among social and cultural historians. This edition includes a Preface by Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509539557

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9781509539550

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

By: Piero Ignazi

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Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

By: Piero Ignazi

This text explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the usefulness of the left-right distinction, it deals with the varied significance of the term 'right' and analyses the right's post-war evolution across Europe.

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0198293259

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